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Bob Filner was sentenced Monday to three months of home confinement and three years of probation for harassing women while he was mayor of San Diego, completing the fall of the former 10-term congressman who barely a year ago achieved his long dream of being elected leader of the nation's eighth-largest city.

Princeton University is set to start the vaccination of nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis.

In comments broadcast on state TV, Hossein Dehghan said Iranian missiles can now strike within two meters of their targets, compared to 200 meters previously.

"This is the island. This is where you will die." These were the words which greeted Nelson Mandela on his first day of imprisonment on Robben Island.

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Investors are sorely missing clarity on the world economy as the year draws to a close, and neither European finance ministers nor a new U.S. central bank president are likely to provide it.

Indianapolis city officials say their budding plan to build a massive new Marion County criminal justice complex without raising taxes could rely on a long-term deal with a private developer.

Two South Florida men have been sentenced to federal prison time for their roles in a cocaine smuggling ring that used cargo shipping containers.

Walt Disney Co's animated princess fairy tale "Frozen" heated up movie box office charts in the United States and Canada, displacing dystopian thriller "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" as the top-earning film.

Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday that he could be willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, but expressed wariness of other forces in the country.

Illinois state prison inmates are among those who have been taking part in recovery efforts after last month's deadly tornadoes.

On her way to one of her first college classes this August, Laney Overton walked past towering coils of barbed wire and stepped through a metal detector.

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About 50 survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor paused Saturday at the site to honour those killed and remember the moment that plunged the U.S. into World War II.

He was with Nelson Mandela during all those years the anti-apartheid icon was imprisoned on Robben Island.

The New York State Police say two inmates at who died in custody at the Attica Correctional Facility likely overdosed on drugs.

This handout photo provided by the US Army, taken Oct. 26 shows a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 Chinook helicopter, operated by members of the Texas and Oklahoma National Guard, flying a personnel and equipment movement mission over Kabul, Afghanistan.

North Korea freed an 85-year-old retired American soldier on Saturday after detaining him for more than a month for crimes it said he committed during the Korean War six decades ago.

Cuban Jewish leaders said Friday that they celebrated Hanukkah with imprisoned US government subcontractor Alan Gross this week, two days after he marked four years in custody.

My favorite TV shows this year were dour, cruel and often violent affairs - even my favorite reality-based show was about death.